Irvine Lenroot

Irvine Luther Lenroot (21 January 1869-26 January 1949) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-WI 11) from 4 March 1909 to 17 April 1918, succeeding John J. Jenkins and preceding Adolphus Peter Nelson, and a US Senator from 18 April 1918 to 3 March 1927, succeeding Paul O. Husting and preceding John J. Blaine.

Biography
Irvine Luther Lenroot was born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1869, and he became a lawyer in 1897. Lenroot served in the State Assembly from 1901 to 1907, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1909 to 1918, when he was elected to the US Senate following a special election that occurred due to Paul O. Husting's death. At the 1920 Republican National Convention, the progressive Lenroot won the votes of 146 delegates during his campaign to be Warren G. Harding's running mate, but he lost to Calvin Coolidge with 674 votes. He left office in 1927, and President Herbert Hoover appointed Lenroot as an Associate Judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals, serving from 1929 to 1944.